Austin unveilled

Here’s some of the first contrasting impressions of Austin near the Extended Stay Hotel where I’m staying, between 6th and Guadalupe St. – location is the highlight of this place, a 10 min. walk to the Austin SXSW Congress centre and 5 min. walk from downtown at night :)

Austin is a city with an ecletic architecture. The hotel is the smallest building on the left, and the original rooftop on the right is part of the futurist controversial Frost Bank tower.

Trees are all over, providing a beautiful poetic framework to the city (I wonder that in Summer the shadows may be very useful, too… ;))